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US 8,285,651 B1Granted
High speed printing
AssigneeStamps.com Inc.
InventorsJ P Leon, Keith Bussell
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Abstract
A system and method for high-speed processing of mail pieces is disclosed. The high-speed system includes client server that forms and prints a reduced Information-Based Indicia (RIBI) on each piece of mail. The client server provides funds to the system server and reports the RIBI usage to the system server. The system server issues tokens to the client server that allow the client server to the print RIBI indicia for a certain value of postage.
Claims21
A high speed mail processing method comprising:
- receiving a token representing a predetermined value from a trusted meter, said token authorizing issuance of a plurality of reduced information based postage indicia up to said predetermined value;
- forming, by a computer processor, a dataset comprising enough information to create one or more full information based postage indicia;
- forming, by said computer processor, one or more said reduced information based postage indicia using information from said dataset, wherein said reduced information based postage indicia evidences paid postage on a mail piece, and wherein said reduced information based postage indicia comprises less than said enough information to create a full information based postage indicia for said mail piece;
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- printing, by a printer, said reduced information based postage indicia without printing said full information based indicia and without delay associated with generating said full information based postage indicia, wherein said reduced information postage indicia is printed as evidence of paid postage.
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A high speed mail processing system comprising:
- a token representing a predetermined value from a trusted meter, said token adapted for authorizing issuance of a plurality of reduced information based postage indicia up to said predetermined value, wherein said reduced information based postage indicia evidences paid postage on a mail piece;
- a processor-based system operating under control of an instruction set defining operation for forming one or more of said reduced information based postage indicia using said token, for forming a dataset comprising enough information to create one or more full information based postage indicia corresponding to said one or more reduced information based postage indicia, for defining an association between said one or more reduced information based postage indicia and said corresponding dataset, wherein said one or more reduced information based postage indicia comprises less than said enough information to create one or more full information based postage indicia;
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- a printer coupled to said processor-based system and operable under control of said processor-based system to print said one or more reduced information based postage indicia for use as evidence of paid postage, wherein said printer prints said one or more reduced information base postage indicia without printing said one or more full information based indicia and without delay associated with generating said full information based postage indicia.
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A system comprising:
- a computer processor operable to form a dataset comprising enough information to create one or more full information based postage indicia;
- said computer processor operable to form one or more reduced information based postage indicia using information from said dataset, wherein said reduced information based postage indicia evidences paid postage on a mail piece, and wherein said reduced information based postage indicia comprises less than said enough information to create a full information based postage indicia for said mail piece;
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- a printer operable to print said reduced information based postage indicia without printing said full information based indicia and without a delay associated with generating said full information based postage indicia wherein said reduced information postage indicia is printed as evidence of paid postage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.